Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to in a minute . |
| 2 | The rest was easy and I got to within a hundred yards . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |
| 4 | I came to in a taxi , my painful head on a woman 's lap . |
| 5 | I came to in a dentist-type chair , surrounded by Charlie 's Angels — a pink one , a blue one and a green one . |
| 6 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
| 7 | She came to for a bit when we brought her into the light , but I had difficulty following what she said . |
| 8 | And even if one wanted to at a bird observatory , one would find it difficult to lie in . |
| 9 | Manton contained Palmer and they closed to within a shot with two ends left for play . |
| 10 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 11 | They soon learn that anyone referred to as a black sheep , is not only different , but is regarded as being in disgrace . |
| 12 | These included his controversial and televised snub to his Dublin counterpart , Gay Mitchell , whom he referred to as a ‘ foreigner ’ and failed to wear his chain of office during their brief City Hall meeting . |
| 13 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 14 | For good measure he pitched to under a yard on the 17th for his seventh birdie and the lowest round of his five-year tour career . |
| 15 | He claims the great record company he signed to as a teenager has become part of a giant electronics corporation . |
| 16 | The correspondence between Elizabeth and me , begun in that autumn of 1948 , was to become increasingly frequent and intimate , and it lasted to within a month of Elizabeth 's death , when she was no longer able to hold a pen . |
| 17 | He set to with a will and soon the doors were reduced to kindling . |